Insurer QBE has completed a detailed analysis of climate change litigation, and has put the oil and gas industry on notice that it won't insure them if they aren't Paris-aligned.
A court has ruled that a group of young people challenging a Clive Palmer coal project must clarify whose human rights will be infringed by its contribution to climate change.
New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.
The Federal Court today scheduled a five-day hearing of a climate change test case, in which a group of teenagers are alleging it would cause them harm if Whitehaven's proposed Vickery coal mine secured EPBC Act approval.
A group of bushfire survivors that has mounted a court challenge against the NSW EPA has won the right to present expert climate change evidence from a former Australian chief scientist.
A big industry super fund will make its fund carbon neutral by 2050, as part of a settlement with a member who argued it hadn't properly informed him about its management of climate risk.
A class action against Environment Minister Sussan Ley, launched by teenagers, adds to a raft of climate change litigation now underway on multiple fronts.
Landmark proceedings filed in the Federal Court today allege the Australian government, Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy, and another top bureaucrat failed to disclose climate risk when issuing sovereign bonds.
More polluting companies would be prosecuted and their executives could face jail, under new environmental and clean energy proposals released by US presidential contender Joe Biden.